PETRAEUS'S COMMANDING OFFICER IS AGAINST IRAN WAR

"... hawks... have pressed their campaign for cross-border military action against Iran in the opinion pages of such neo-conservative publications as The Weekly Standard, The National Review, and the Wall Street Journal. Their calls for action became so intense that the commander of the US Central Command and Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon... complained publicly that "this constant drumbeat of conflict is ... not helpful and not useful. It is not a good idea to be in a state of war. We ought to try to do our utmost to create different conditions," he told Al-Jazeera..."
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